Pandit Ravi Shankar

India’s first global rockstar who performed with George Harrison and Bob Dylan, and played a live-aid concert before Queen

August 02, 2025 1:13 pm

Remembering the night Madison Square Garden fell silent for a sitar, and lent its ears to Pandit Ravi Shankar, one of the greatest instrumentalists of all time.

Recently honoured with the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award, Pandit Ronu Majumdar has collaborated with legends like Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Zakir Hussain

‘A miser like me is playing for free, and you’re saying you can’t play?’: Flute maestro Pandit Ronu Majumdar on how Kishore Kumar helped him find humour in music and life

February 05, 2025 4:04 pm

Recently honoured with Padma Shri, Pandit Ronu Majumdar talks about his four-decade journey as an Indian classical musician and his association with legends such as Zakir Hussain.

A melody for the mind: The story of ‘Sitar for Mental Health’

May 14, 2022 7:45 am

Rishab Rikhiram Sharma talks about his tryst with the sitar, his guru, the sitar virtuoso, Pandit Ravi Shankar, his struggles with mental illnesses and conceptualising the ‘Sitar for Mental Health’.

Sitar player Rishab Rikhiram Sharma on battling anxiety, Pt Ravi Shankar, and healing powers of classical music

November 24, 2021 12:32 pm

On his connection with the sitar that "runs deep", Rishab said, "I have two lineages on my shoulders like one is my family lineage, and the other is the Ravi Shankar style of music and his gharana."

Sitar player Ut Shujaat Khan on the famous rivalry between his father Ut Vilayat Khan and Pt Ravi Shankar

April 13, 2020 5:25 pm

In the month of the centenary of Pt Ravi Shankar, Ut Vilayat Khan’s son and Grammy-nominated sitar player Ut Shujaat Khan talks about the relationship between the two legends, and how the contest kept them on their toes.

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Remembering Pandit Ravi Shankar’s sublime notes in his centenary year

April 14, 2020 2:56 pm

One of sitar’s greatest exponents, who took Indian classical music to the world, Robindro Shankar Chowdhury would have turned 100 on April 7

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Anoushka Shankar: ‘I look inwards a lot more than I used to’

February 09, 2020 1:05 pm

The sitar player on heartbreak, life after divorce, her new album and a first-time stage collaboration with sister Norah Jones in Pandit Ravi Shankar’s birth centenary.